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March 20, 2015

Cropping Africa's wet savannas would bring high environmental costs
Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 20, 2015
With the global population rising, analysts and policymakers have targeted Africa's vast wet savannas as a place to produce staple foods and bioenergy groups at low environmental costs. But a new report published in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that converting Africa's wet savannas into farmland would come at a high environmental cost and, in some cases, fail to meet existing standards for renewable fuels. Led by researchers from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public an ... read more

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